Harvard SEAS Professional Development Seminar

Harvard SEAS Professional Development Seminar Series

Spring 2013

School of Engineering and Applied Science
Harvard University

About :: Seminar Schedule :: Resources :: Teaching :: Contact

Wednesdays, noon to 1pm in Maxwell-Dworkin 125

About

A weekly seminar on topics related to professional development for all graduate students and post-docs in SEAS. Lunch will be provided.

All SEAS graduate students and postdocs will automatically receive our email announcements. For others, if you'd like to be updated of the weekly seminar, please contact Jia Chen at jiachen@seas.harvard.edu, Redston Emily at redston@fas.harvard.edu, Sim Jai at jaisim@fas.harvard.edu, or Deqing Sun at dqsun@seas.harvard.edu..

If you'd like to get involved in organizing the seminar series, please contact Li Sun at lisun@seas.harvard.edu.

Schedule

Date	Speaker(s)	Topic	Resources
2/6/2013	Laura S. Malisheski	Career Pointers from OCS: Take Control of Your Career!	Slides
2/13/2013	Sujata K. Bhatia	Life as a Bioengineer in Industry and Academia: Biomaterials Development for the Real World	Slides
2/27/2013	David Clarke	Preparing for Graduate School Afterlife: Pointers for Your Future Career
3/6/2013	David Weitz	A Start-up Company to Start Your Career	Slides
3/13/2013	Masaru Tsuchiya	What I Wish I Knew in Grad School: Lessons I've Learned From University Spinoff Development
3/20/2013	Qichao Hu	You are closer to where you are going than where you came from - Reflecting on the early days of my start-up
3/27/2013	Greg Morrisett	Ten things I did wrong in graduate school	Slides
4/3/2013	Narayanamurti	Societal grand challenges and science policy: opportunities in academia, industry and national laboratories
4/10/2013	Annie Benitez Pelaez	The Journey in a Constantly Changing Industry
4/24/13	John Girash	Putting 'Education' Back into a Career in Higher Education: Exploring Teaching-Focused Career Paths

Resources

The Office of Career Services has many resources and seminars related to career and professional development for both academic and non-academic careers. We highly encourage you to use this as a complement to SEAS's own offerings!

Join their LISTSERVS just for grad students, one on academic and one on nonacademic careers. They send out job postings, reminders of OCS programs, and announcements of other career events and information
Check out their website, http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu, especially the section specifically for graduate students.
If you'd like to discuss your career questions with a GSAS specialist, drop by OCS any Monday 1:00-4:00pm for their scheduled drop-ins, or call OCS (5-2595) to schedule an appointment.
HBS has a cool elevator pitch builder.

The Bureau of Study Counsel is a center for academic and personal development. They host numerous workshops and discussion groups, as well as many self-help resources on a large variety of topics. Take a look around their website!

Teaching

SEAS offers a Teaching Practicum course (CS365) for all graduate students. This year it will be taught spring semester.
The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning offers many resources on teaching.

Contact

If you have any questions or would like to be added to a mailing list for weekly meeting reminders, please contact Deqing,Sun at dqsun@seas.harvard.edu.